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Opinion: The Anti-Argo

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... six ... the back exit where the ... Canadian investors ... revolutionary guards going door to door ... welcome back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... that's a clip from Ben Affleck's blockbuster hit this year ... our go which tell the tale of ... the King of the Iranian Revolution and an amazing effort ... C I a Canadian operation ... to get six American diplomats out in that country in ... nineteen eighty ... three so true to life apparently ... that Iran has upset me feel they need to make their own version of Argo ... Assistant books editor saw Rob Omar is here ... to explain to ridicule to discuss and so on ... what is so anti Iranian about our narrow windy so upset ... well it's the it's a pretty pretty accurate telling of what revolutionary Iran was like ... the brutality of the the revolution is the followers of ... Ayatollah Khomeini and ... it reached a broad audience he worked with ... critics and it sold quite well ... aam and the so it's it's a serious a ... serious crack ... or a blow against their ... teenagers is already terrible but now in a very big Hollywood production ... to fund them ... okay ... so this new Lumia Tehran's making is called what the general staff as the half of the general staff so what's the story line ... it said the house that supposedly ... twenty hostages were released at you know that that that that the revolutionaries were merciful enough to let twenty of them go ... now there is some truth early on in the hostage taking process ... that the revolution is released thirteen African-American and women staff numbers of the embassy because ... they thought that they were you know ... fellow oppressed ... you know victims of American imperialism ... and one person who had amassed ... but hey it's bizarre that they think of that ... for now that they've up the number to twenty that somehow absolve them of ... you know that the hostage taking in what all of you know horrible affair that was for that for them to the victims and for the for the families back well well so I have an open mind I if they make it great found ... maybe we wanna see why I'm looking an example of some non state theory in filmmaking ... here we go ... the the ... the the the ... a friend ... of effectual state news footage ... of ... training for Iranian ... women police officers and security agents ... and ... their China to make it make you seen it so ... you know this is that the coup was saying ... but didn't ... identify my favorite videos on YouTube is who and ... who was supposed to look really ... you know ... awesome man and James Bond Lexus looks for the ridiculous yet mean not exactly the Marines ... repelling down the line stories of the Islamic ninjas not not exactly a Oscar quality and so did General staff ... in the last ... this is is a myth the Rani is ... Why make this legal Iranians know the real story of what happened in the Revolution Will that they're the narrative as they be constructed it is that the the the the the the revolution is obviously were justified in the hostage taking but that ... the the the American hostages were actually quite well treated they were treated as gets that's still the official narrative and message to Iranian swatching fell right not to the rest the world where frankly admitted that they were that they were justified in the written something great but as I frankly don't think that ... even in the province's or an urban working class areas where the regime still has ... had some measure of support that people turn to the stuff I mean they might be loyal to the regime when it comes there and entertainment ... it thanks but no thanks I wanna watch Transformers three ... I you know on my ... a pirate DVD in it thankfully movie tastes are the same everywhere around the world this is the book so there's hope for my thank you so much for being ... with us ...